Expanded application hub offers new validated AI apps

Following the recent launch of its Application Hub, SECO has announced a new set of AI apps, marking the beginning of regular additions planned for the coming months. Each application has been validated by the company to ensure performance and reliability on its solutions and is designed for straightforward integration and deployment on a wide range of edge hardware, reinforcing the hub's core mission to make advanced AI technologies more accessible to industrial OEMs.

By providing these powerful, pre-packaged solutions, the company enables customers to greatly reduce their time-to-market and concentrate their engineering resources on their final application and unique value proposition, thereby abstracting the challenges of AI development. The newly available applications include:

• LLM – Local Chatbot with Intel OpenVINO: Using the efficient Phi model and optimised with OpenVINO, it allows offline conversational AI on the edge. This is perfect for creating interactive smart assistants, intelligent device manuals, and private-by-design customer service kiosks that do not rely on cloud connectivity.
• Speech-to-Text: Employing OpenAI's powerful Whisper model on TensorFlow, this application delivers highly accurate voice transcription at the edge. It can be used to enable voice commands in HMIs, transcribe meetings in real-time, or create accessibility tools. An OpenVINO-compatible release is planned for the near future, promising enhanced performance on Intel architectures.
• Anti-Spoofing: A critical security enhancement for any device using facial recognition. This algorithm intelligently analyses a video stream from a standard RGB camera to distinguish between a live person and a static image or digital photo, preventing fraudulent access attempts via spoofing. This level of security is often mandatory in specific sectors such as the defence industry.
• Fitness Tracker - Time Series Classification: This algorithm interfaces with smart-bands or other wearables to process accelerometer and gyroscope data in real-time, providing the foundation for next-generation wellness and sports monitoring applications.
• Image Super Resolution: A sophisticated AI upscaling tool that intelligently improves the resolution and quality of images and video frames. This has significant applications in medical imaging for clearer diagnoses, surveillance for identifying details, and in restoring legacy digital media.
• Image Analysis for Defect – Training Experience: An application developed to simplify the creation of quality control systems in manufacturing. It delivers a streamlined experience for training a model to automatically detect production defects, improving quality and reducing operational costs.

"We're progressively releasing more and more AI applications on the Application Hub, and they will soon be available for one-click deployment on the Clea Framework. Stay tuned for our upcoming monthly releases," says Fausto Di Segni, head of IoT and AI at SECO. 

These new releases build on the App Hub's foundational promise of vast hardware compatibility across leading vendors like Intel, Qualcomm, NXP, AMD, Rockchip, and MediaTek, all covered by SECO's enterprise Long-Term Support on solutions featuring these chipsets, as well as its upcoming turnkey deployment capability via the Clea Framework.